This one is from around 1944. Two members of the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion. I guess the shovel and axe are no longer standard.
Posted on 01/08/2017 3:15:23 PM PST by mandaladon
DETROIT (AP) -- Fiat Chrysler will add three new Jeeps to its lineup including a pickup truck as it invests $1 billion in two U.S. factories, furthering its effort to increase production of hot-selling SUVs and pickup trucks and get out of producing small and midsize cars. The expansion will create 2,000 new jobs.
The Italian-American automaker said Sunday it will modernize a factory in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, to make the new Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer large SUVs. A factory complex just south of there in Toledo, Ohio, also will get new equipment to make the new pickup. The company wouldn't provide details of the new products, but said the factory work would be done in 2020.
Consumers worldwide have gravitated toward SUVs and trucks while turning away from passenger cars. Last year in the U.S., car sales fell 7 percent while truck and SUV sales rose 8 percent.
Last year, FCA announced plans to stop production of the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200. Factories that make those products in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and Belvidere, Ill., will get new trucks and SUVs as FCA searches for an automaker that would build small cars under contract.
The factory upgrade in Warren also would allow the plant to make heavy-duty Ram pickups that now are produced in Saltillo, Mexico. But FCA would not say if it has plans to shift production to the north.
Producing vehicles in Mexico and shipping them to the U.S. has become a thorny political issue with the election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has criticized Ford, General Motors and Toyota for building small cars in Mexico and shipping them across the border. He has threatened to impose a big border tax on the companies.
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I’d do anything to see some land yachts again! Maybe Trump will get the EPA to reduce the milage standards.
What is the “fan out” for lack of a better term? By that, I mean we keep hearing about this company adding a few hundred jobs, others adding a few thousand. Those workers and their families are going to purchase goods and services, expanding commerce in the local area. How many smaller businesses are planning to add a dozen here, a few there... Seems like America is getting ready to go back to work.
Most everyone I know who had Jeeps had problems. My brother was a diehard Jeep man who owned a Grand Jeep Cherokee that was in the shop so many times he was able to lemonlaw it and got cash. All the warning lights would come on and it would shutter and shake. Dealer couldn’t fix it. One day it happened in front of a Toyota dealership and he traded it in right on the spot. I like the looks of a Jeep but the problems reported scared me away.
Youve clearly never owned a Jeep. Im sure youre stock in GM is doing well.
Why would you want those when you can have LEDs?
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Utterly moronic statement!
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My father had a ‘64 Imperial. When I got my license, I would take it to school some days, and on dates. Think girls likes hot cars? Nah, they liked luxury.
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Hopefully they’ll abandon the tiny bubble cars and return to the larger, more functionally shaped Jeeps.
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Yes they would. Most auto manufacturer CEOs don’t have a clue. Their idea of a luxury car is a Ford Focus.
In order to make a profit, you'd think they would have to build many more than that...
My 65 CJ5 is still works in progress and I hope to have it roadworthy by spring finally.
All of this winning is killing me.
< LIE type=propaganda arg=globalist > These jobs are never coming back. < /LIE >
That boat has it’s own time zone.
This one is from around 1944. Two members of the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion. I guess the shovel and axe are no longer standard.
Having a decent paying job has a multiplier effect regardless.
This past weekend, I made the return trip from my Christmas/New Year's vacation in PA and did the 300 mile length of I-55 through Mississippi during the worst of the ice storm. Frankly, there is not another vehicle I would have rather been in for that trip.
I liked the CJ’s...Never cared for the wagon style Jeeps...
The short wheel base of the CJ’s took me places the others couldn’t go...
Specific output (output per unit volume of engine displacement) is up enormously since your HS days. A current Corolla probably outperforms most of the muscle cars of your era. Modern digital engine controls and engine design using computation fluid dynamics for the flow path and 3D finite element analysis for the parts, matters.
And that’s just for starters.
I’m looking for 3 autos: 1) Plymouth Road Runner Superbird, 2) Studebaker Avanti and 3) The concept Corvette Station Wagon (I read about it in 1971. I guess it got crushed.
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